Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whale of a fish tale. The North American Air Defense Command had long tracked the Soviet trawler fleet operating near U.S. coastal waters. There are some 3,000 of these ships afloat, and many do much more than fish. Heavily laden with electronic snooping gear, their real function is military surveillance. They patrol off missile-launching Vandenberg Air Force Base in the West, off Cape Canaveral in the East, along strategic points in the Atlantic and Pacific missile ranges. They have even cut underseas communications cables...
N.I.T. was fathered by James L. Mc-Kinley in 1942 to train production engineers for Northrop Aircraft's wartime assembly lines. By war's end, the school had proved so successful that Northrop turned it into a subsidiary company with the sole function of educating technicians for the entire aircraft industry. By 1947, the two-year school was rolling in subsidized G.I. Bill students. McKinley, sensing an opportunity to make the school into a junior Caltech, bought it from Northrop and turned it by 1960 into a tax-exempt institution valued...
This philosophy has always assumed that examinations should teach the undergraduate as they test him. This assumption creates difficulties in devising questions, yet the value of a test which draws together the material covered in a term is so apparent that the teaching function of exams is almost never challenged. Ideally, the CEP will promulgate new ways to ensure that an examination--or its alternative--is not a separate entity tacked on to the end of a course, but an integral part of the educational process...
...Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their function is minor and wholly comic. The other figures are inadequately drawn and only sketchily donnish...
What the Administration has to do is to put the matter just as bluntly: Wasted allocations are a necessity of foreign aid. Their educational function is crucial. Admittedly the Hill may not grasp this idea, even if it is presented. After all, the Congressmen can repeat, the U.S. has wasted funds for years with no tangible results. Yet the point is not simply that Congress has made achieving results difficult through restrictive legislation; it is that instead of an aid program that has worked for many years, the U.S. has one that is just beginning to work. The last...